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The problem of using male anatomy as the default in medicine is that it doesn’t always read across to female bodies.

Next year, however, my medical school will become one of the latest to abandon cadaver-based education, using technology to teach anatomy instead. And I can’t help but wonder: What will be lost ...

Most males and females have the same number of ribs — 12 on either side of the body for a total of 24. Some people may have extra or fewer ribs.

The Franklin Institute’s new “Body Worlds: Vital” exhibit features 150 real human specimens — including 20 whole-body plastinates — to explore the human condition.

Researchers then used the technique on a 46-year-old woman with advanced heart failure. The patches in this case were devised using human cells from a donor and were sutured onto the patient’s ...

However, he did no human dissections – they were illegal during his time – and many of his extrapolations from animal to human anatomy were wrong. Galen dissecting a monkey, Veloso Salgado ...

In the book “Cursed,” the Brooklyn-based photographer and director Charlie Engman intentionally leans into the strangeness of AI photographs, generating eerie images that feel set in the real ...

Surgeons have successfully implanted an artificial titanium heart in the chest of a human patient that is powered by the same ‘maglev’ technology used in the creation of high-speed trains.